Refrigerator



W. FREEMAN. Refrigerator.

No. 223,499. PatentedJam 13,1880. Z QQ'.

WITNESSES:

MFETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPNER, WASMNGTON, D. C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. FREEMAN, OF AMBOY, ILLINOIS.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 223,499, dated January 13, 1880.

Application filed August 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FREEMAN, of Amboy, in the county of Lee and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerator-Crates, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a plan of the open crate, showing the boxes and ice-crib in position. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the closed crate on line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of the false bottom within the crate. Fig. 4 represents, in perspective, view of a box and cover designed for holding butter.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, convenient, and inexpensive refrigerator-crate for transporting butter, fruits, meats, game, 850.; and the invention consists in providing a rectangular wooden box having a zinc lining, the space between which and the outside is filled with charcoal or other good nonconductor, with a cover having an L-shapcd block to hold the ice-crib firmly in place, and with a removable perforated and grooved false bottom that supports a removable ice-crib which has in wardly-inclined metallic dripslats secured to its corner-posts to prevent the ice-water from dropping outward upon the articles packed in the crate, as hereinafter fully described.

I In the drawings, A represents the crate, havin g metallic lining a. Bis the space between the lining and the outside of the crate, filled with a good non-conductor of heat. C is the ice'crib, open at top and bottom, and provided with the inwardly-inclined slat-s b. D is the false bottom, provided with perforations c and grooves cl, for the discharge of the ice-water, and with legs f, to raise it from the floor of the crate. g is the drip-orifice; h, the plug fitting it, and t" the metallic plate to prevent the accidental removal of the plug. E is the inner cover of the crate, provided with block F, for holding theice-crib in position when the cover is closed, and G is the outer cover of the crate. H H representboxes that may be used for holding articles in transportation.

When used for transporting articles the ice-crib is preferably placed in the center of the crate, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the articles to be transported packed around it; but when devoted to family use the crib may be set in one corner of the crate, its legs ontering the sockets 0 in the false bottom, and

its lower edges the grooves d, so thatit shall ters Patent- 1. The cover E, provided with the L-shaped block F, having notches q, in combination with the ice-crib O, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The false bottom D, provided with perforations c, grooves d, and sockets 0, in combination with the ice-crib O, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In combination with a refrigerating-crate, the cover E, provided with the block F, the icecrib 0, having inwardly-projecting lips b, and the false bottom D, provided with perforations o, grooves d, and sockets 0, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE WASHINGTON FREEMAN.

Witnesses:

JEROME B. HUssEY, GEo. F. Woons. 

